"
....I must think of the generation to come and for those who have
no voice. Without clean air and clean waters there can be no
life......" The
Shoshone Indians

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DAWN
WATCHmission
is to collect, organized and disseminate information about the
Dawn Mining Company's (owned by Newmont Mining Corp) reclamation
of their defuct uranium mill in Washington State.

PHELPS
DODGE WATCH is from
the Good Neighbor Project. It tracks the
activities of the Phelps Dodge Corporation, a multinational mining
conglomerate that is one of the world's largest producers of
copper.

MINING
IMPACT COALITIONis the international
organization of Mining Impact Coalition of Wisconsin, formed to
educate people, conduct research, and facilitate communication
about the social, economic, and environmental impacts of unsafe
mining and sustainable use of the world's mineral resources.

FRIENDS
OF THE EARTHis the organization who
launched the "Dark Legacy of Mining" Campaign. It aims
to educate the public about mining's negative impacts, facilitate
discussion, and develop an action plan that will help tackle
mining issues, protecting and restoring the environment in the
process.

COROMANDEL
WATCHDOGis a conservation group
committed to ensuring the protection of the beautiful land and
coast of Coromandel (Hauraki) [New Zealand] from hard-rock
mining.

ASHTON
COURT QUARRY CAMPAIGN
is a grassroots organization fighting Australian company Pioneer
Aggregates' plan to expand its Durnford Quarry into 20 acres of a
public park on the edge of Bristol, U.K.

GREATER
YELLOWSTONE COALITION
is the organization who ended a long battle against Noranda's New
World gold mine that was proposed for the edge of Yellowstone
National Park. The Clinton Administration recently made a deal
with Noranda to cancel the project.

SIERRA
CLUB POLICY: COAL MINING.
Sierra Club Board of
Directors adopted a policy on coal mining, stating that such
mining "as caused and continues to cause serious and
extensive environmental damage."

DINEH
ALLIANCEis the Dineh's organization
which involved in a longstanding battles against Peabody
Coal and the U.S. government to protect their sacred lands in the
Big Mountain area of the Southwest.

EARTH
WINSis
an organization dedicated to helping stop the proposed Exxon/Rio
Algom Crandon mine, sulfide mining in the Great Lakes &
Mississippi Watersheds, and unsafe mining around the world.

FOREST
WATER ALLIANCE
is a coalition of 21 citizen groups working on protecting the
watersheds of western Oregon and Washington and Northern
California.

GLOBAL
FOREST WATCHis
a forest conservation group providing accurate, timely and
comprehensive information on logging, mining and other forest
development activities taking place within and around frontier
forests as or before it happens.

JEMEZ
HOMEOWNER ALLIANCEis an alliance that stand in
the front line of defense protect the Jemez National
Recreation Area and the community in New Mexico from the
adverse impacts of mining activity.

MINERAL
POLICY CENTERis a small national
non-profit environmental organization dedicated to cleaning up the
environmental problems caused by mining and onshore oil
development, and to preventing new ones.

MINERAL
POLICY INSTITUTE
is an Australian group dedicated solely to researching and
campaigning on mining issues. (If this link doesn't work, try this
one.) They conduct research, collate information, produce
company profiles, and campaign for improved management of the
minerals sector.

NASHVILLE
WISCONSIN UNDER SIEGEis a movement of the
citizens of Nashville Wisconsin, population 975 which includes the
Mole Lake Sokaogon Chippewa community, feel so threatened by the
proposed Crandon mine that they're asking the world for help. The
town has set up a web site to raise funds for a lawsuit to
overturn a local agreement made with Rio Algom/Nicolet Minerals
Company.

MINING
EXCHANGE is
an international email listserv dedicated to helping people who
resist unsafe mining in their neighborhoods share information
about their strategies, mining, and mining corporations. To
subscribe to Mining-exchange: send an email message to: majordomo@igc.apc.org
with message: subscribe mining-exchange.

MIDWEST
TREATY NETWORKS
is a website that focuses on issues of significance to Native
American groups in the midwestern U.S., including a wealth of
information about Exxon's Crandon Mine in Wisconsin (including
detailed maps) and about the Chippewa blockade of trains carrying
sulfuric acid to a mine.

NOTICIAS
MINERAS
is an organization who offers Chilean mining news in both Spanish
and English, including daily and weekly summaries of Chilean
newspaper stories.

CHIPNEWS
is part of the Chile Information Project, and includes six years
of searchable stories on mining and other environmental issues
relevant to Chile.

MAGNOLA
PROJECTis
a magnesium mining project in Quebec, Canada. The website is
somewhat enigmatic as to who is sponsoring it. There are links to
"Environment"; "Greenpeace interventions";
"Health"; "Magnesium"; "Press";
"Quebec Government"; and Noranda.

MENOMINEE
NATION TREATY RIGHTS & MINING IMPACTweb site includes
information about the proposed Exxon/Crandon mine in Wisconsin.
This site documents the severe environmental impacts that would be
caused by this project, which would mine one of the largest
zinc/copper deposits in North America.

MINING
LAW EDUCATION PROJECTis a program dedicated to
educating the public about hard-rock mining's enviornmental,
fiscal, and social impacts, and how the 1872 Mining Law promotes
or directly causes many of these impacts.